Y4 Friday Blog - 10/10/25
Date: 8th Oct 2025 @ 8:23am
Important Information!
As part of our homework this week, we thought it would be beneficial for the children to focus on who they can turn to for help if they need support.
Talk to someone you can trust, such as your parents or carers, a grandparent, a teacher, a teaching assistant, or another known and trusted adult.
Welcome to the Year 4 Blog!
Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings / times tables and lots more.
Homework
Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference. E.g. "Why do you think the character is unhappy?"
Please note that reading books will be changed when completed. Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. Thank you in advance.
Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to Spelling Shed.
Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 16th October
Spellings
opposite
women
believe
interest
calendar
grammar
straight
appear
increase
Geography Fact of the Week!
Mrs. Macdonald (our Geography boffin) has had a great idea! To make sure our knowledge of the world is solid, each class will be spotlighting a different country in Europe.
For this term, we have the country Italy - the home of the great Valentino Rossi!
Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog...
Nature
For 22 centuries, Italians and their ancestors have cleared fields, grazed livestock, and hunted wild animals. Forests that once covered large areas are gone. But the country's remote places and many national parks still have wilderness largely untouched by humans.
The lower slopes of Italy's Alps are covered with forests. Above these woodlands are meadows that explode with specially adapted wildflowers in the spring. Throughout Italy, millions of birds stop to rest during their annual migration to Africa.
Maths Problem of the Week
Each week, a new maths problem will appear on the blog... Can you solve it?
The answers will be posted in next week's blog!
Previous week's answers...
Looking at the horiztonal sides, the square must have sides which equal 9cm.
Next, looking at the vertical sides... 9cm for the square and 4cm from the rectangle.
Y = 13cm in total
Our learning this week in Year 4
English
Our first English book of the year is Escape from Pompeii, a fantastic and gripping story about 2 friends trying to escape the erupting volcano.
Our independent writing is now finished, and they look absolutely fantastic! We have used our previous modelled writing, alonside our own imagination to rewrite the story of Escape from Pompeii, but with a big change - we don't need to escape as Vesuvius didn't erupt!
One of us thought up the most brilliant (if not slightly sarcastic) titles for our new book... 'Just another random day in Pompeii"
Maths - Addition and Subtraction
In maths, the unit of 'statistics' has come and gone! We are already on our next unit - Addition and Subtraction
We have been looking at using column addition to add two 4-digit numbers, before moving onto column addition with missing numbers (this was a tricky one!) Now, we are looking at adding three 4-digit numbers, again sticking with the column addition method.
Weekly Awards
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 4 team